Bilingual Education: Evaluation, Assessment and Methodology. During the 1970s two important projects in the field of bilingual education were mounted in Wales: the Schools Council Bilingual Education Projects in Primary and Secondary Schools, respectively. These two projects attracted the attention of educationists in various parts of the world where bilingual education is seen as the solution to a variety of political or social problems. This book brings together the evaluation by Professor CJ Dodson and the assessment by Dr. Eurwen Price of teaching methodology developed by Professor Dodson and used specifically during the Secondary School Project.
The notion that bilingual speakers function as two monolinguals is incorrect, and drawing comparisons between, or to have the same expectations of second language speakers and native first language or monolingual speakers is inappropriate. By now, our recognition and understanding that bilingual speakers have two languages that not only influence each other in different ways (e.g. by transferring grammatical structures and vocabulary from one language to the other; by promoting, enriching and sometimes slowing down the development and understanding of forms in one language or the other – see Cook, 1992), but also have a more universal effect on the individual’s cognitive system (see Thomas & Webb-Davies, 2017), forms a core part of the
thinking that underpins effective language pedagogy.
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